Re: Please verify these 2 OpenBSD Bugs (FAQ, adduser, login.conf)

[Otto Moerbeek <otto@drijf.net>]

On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Matthew Weigel wrote:

> On 1 Jan, 2005, at 1:10 PM, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Mark Farquaad wrote:
> > > I asked if this behaviour of adduser is a bug or not.
> > > You basically told me that it's behaviour is "long standing behaviour",
> > > not wheather it's a bug or not, - or rather you didn't even look into
> > > it with the required depth - it seems now.
> > 
> > Come o,n I replied to your question if adduser(8) should add an entry to
> > /etc/group for a primary group membership:
> 
> That's not the real question, though.
> 
> The problem is that adduser(8)'s behavior is not *documented*,
> long-standing or not.
> 
> This is the closest adduser(8) comes to explaining the behavior:
> 
>            1.   Add the appropriate entries to the password and group files
> 
> Is that insufficient for someone fairly new to Unix?  Maybe.

So where do you look to find out which entries are appropriate for the 
group file? adduser(8) cross references group(5), which contains the 
information you are looking for.

It is wrong to describe the semantics of the group file in the man pages 
of the various utilities manipulating the file. That description belongs 
in group(5).

	-Otto